Why do the protagonists in so many netflix shows openly espouse lefty/Democrat sympathies while being extremely unlikable people?
In Ozark for example, I get that the average normie is probably going to hate all the meth head locals that have been on that land for generations since they're poor and white. Yet in this newest season one of them calls the main characters carpet baggers and they're totally fucking right, they just rolled in from out of town and started shitting on everything like they own the place. I doubt anyone is rooting for them at this point in the show. Yet every time they've ever dealt with the republican politician or that boat minister, they were extremely kind and welcoming people who got steamrolled for trusting them all the while the main characters talk shit on them for not having the right politics.
Another show like that is called You. Its about this male feminist stalker who kills ex boyfriends of girls who have friendzoned him and reads their diary in shit. Everyone in the show is an unlikable turd yet they all espouse metoo talking points, casually browbeat people as racist over dumb little microaggressions, and theres been snide little comments about someone sounding "very Yas Forums" or being a "libertarian scumbag". And everyone saying it is profoundly unlikeable.
Is it a lack of self awareness, or are they really expecting you to identify with and conform to the opinions of these self-apparently evil characters?
Just skimmed your post, but Ozark is trash and You is for liberal girls to masturbate to. Don’t be surprised when garbage on Netflix is full of kikery lmao
Mason Ortiz
They explained why they do this in House of Cards. The originally envisioned Frank Underwood as a republican, but they were worried that if they did that he would be so unlikable that the viewer would not be able to sympathize with him and therefore he would come across as a one dimensional villain.
Evan Ortiz
Babylon Berlin is based
Samuel Cooper
its netflix
i mean, you expect anything other than liberal, diversity quotas and SJW pandering?
Sebastian Stewart
It’s devious programming. Youths will watch that and think acting like it is normal. It also supplants their own experiences.
Samuel Young
Jews are astroturfing republicans now (redneck period of the eternal redneck/faggot cycle of fake democracy), so it's a discreet way to suggest this to retards.
Carter Smith
Kek so being a democrat is shorthand for "this person also has a good side" for writers nowadays? Like instant character depth? Makes sense but wow, that's lazy.
John Green
Watched parks and rec, the worst characters are the indian guys jew friends and the jew city council guy. All total selfish cunts. Its almost like an user got on the show and wrote in anti-semitic tropes and nobody noticed.
Angel Fisher
I suspect it’s down to divide and conquer. Puppet groups get built up and then they are turned against each other whenever the elites want to provoke conflict. Maybe the shows are demonising liberals to stir up more of a right wing backlash
Brayden Wood
City folk watch the television and have the numbers. The settings are just more costuming for their mindset.
Benjamin King
Stephen Cobert on the Cobert Report The Nazis in Man in the High Castle Archie Bunker from All in the Family The left has a long history of trying to vilify conservatives but ending up with those characters being the most likable while the leftists written by leftists (ie Meathead) are unlikable.
Leo Harris
go write this crap in the daily caller, idaF about these shows
Carter Martin
I dont think that's it because they dont exactly go spouting off about trump on a whim like a lunatic or anything in these shows. It's more like someone around them will say something politically incorrect or will be revealed to be a republican or christfag, and the morally depraved sexual deviant / murder / corrupt politician or whoever will be the one to casually correct them or chastise them. It's not meant to make them more unlikable, it's pretty standard soft conditioning that you find in all shows, it's just weird coming from these completely evil characters that the other 99% of the time you arent supposed to be sympathizing with.
Parker Sanders
HUH? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
OZARK PAINTS THE FEMALE LEAD AS THE MOST MISERABLE HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET AND ALL THE "RAW RAW " WOMEN POWER SHIT IS TOTALLY DISMANTLED IN THE LAST EPISODE THE AND THE CONSERVATIVE MALE LEAD IS SEEN AS THE VOICE OF REASON IN A MUCK OF SHIT.
IN YOU WOMEN ARE PORTRAYED AS WORST. I REPEAT WORST THAN A SERIAL KILLER . YOU CAN'T GET MORE OBVIOUS THAN THAT. NETFLIX IS SLICK BUT THEY RARELY PORTRAY MINORITIES AS GOOD. THEY ARE USUALLY FUCK UPS ESPECIALLY HOMOS.
Connor Robinson
You're missing the point. The writers clearly set up Wendy Byrde as your typical gen xer opportunist who thrived in the Obama era. Now she's relegated to the role of a moppy housewife thanks to a miscarriage and actually failing to deliver with her responsibilities. She then creates an adventure as a cry for help in her lifeless marriage to then siding with her money laundering husband in the pursuit of more power. This is very common for power hungry party flag enthusiasts. If you look carefully, Wendy is exploiting her new conditions to attain more power despite being as her brother calls her 'chicken shit'. Of course, once it blows up in her face she resorts to quick emotional desperation. This is the behavior of the new left or the new democrats.
I feel bad for the kids. I'd hate it to have a Democrat boomer and a money laundering cuck as a dad
Logan King
Reminds me of this Ferengispeech in Star Trek which was supposed to satirize “businessmen” but a lot of it sounded pretty based youtu.be/yeKZmIfhEJM
Levi Murphy
Netflix is just another cucked woke corporation
Chase Foster
YOU MISSED THE POINT TOO IDIOT. THE DAD IS BEING PORTRAYED AS THE PERSON WHO IS "MORALLY " CORRECT. HE IS THE STEADY SHIT WHILE SHE IS THE FUCK WHO THINKS SHE HAS TOGETHER WHEN IN FACT SHE IS A FUCKING MESS. OTHER ALPHA FEMALE PLAYED A GAME AGAINST ALPHA MALES AND GOT HER BRAINS BLOWN OUT FOR HER TROUBLE.
NO WINNERS BUT THE CLOSEST IS TEH "KEK" HUSBAND.
AS FAR AS YOU , IT'S WRITTEN BY SOMEONE WHO REALLY REALLY HATES FEMALES.
Andrew Nguyen
And hes a carpetbagging faggot who brought the mexican cartels and the mob into the community, destroyed tons of lives in extremely fucked up ways, and caused the deaths of tons of other people just to save his own ass and make a little money.
Doenst matter how disgusting they try to portray grandma redneck with her 18 year old boyfriend, she's based and I hope in season 4 they kill the entire byrde family except the son as well as all the cartels and mobsters.
You doesnt seem overtly anti woman to me. It seems that way if you hang out here a lot, but I imagine the writer is probably a woman though thinks shes writing a super nuanced plot about really deep, interesting and flawed characters when in reality it's about a bunch of vapid shitfucks, both male and female, that all deserve the rope.
Samuel Ward
LETS SEE: HIS FIRST LOVE INTERESTED IS A VAPID DECAYING TRAMP.
HIS SECOND IS A KILLER WHO DOESN'T MIND HE'S A PSYCHO LOSER WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO KILL "JUST CUZ".
NO FUCK UP, YOU PORTRAYS WOMEN REALLY POORLY. IN FACT THEY MAKE A SERIAL KILLER MORE, I REPEAT MORE, LIKABLE THAN THE "VICTIMS". IF YOU THINK THEY ARE PRO FEMINIST YOU ARE FUCKED.
Gavin Mitchell
Why are you yelling
Carson Russell
I didnt watch past the first season. Show me a picture of the writer, I guran-fucking-tee you the blond chick is a stand-in character and she probably shlicks to the thought of some misunderstood intellectual obsessing over her for years before murdering her
Jeremiah Bailey
I imagine that most of the people are lefty types and they don't see these characters the same way that you or I do. They see them acting shitty but think they're good guys especially if they're shitting on white people or something. Meanwhile someone that people here would generally like would be seen as abhorrent by those people (especially if the character is white and not a cuck or weak).
For a real life example, look at someone like Trump and put yourselves in the shoes of a pro-Trump boomer (I mean a LITERAL civnat sort of boomer) compared to a "progressive".
Boomer sees: >a guy who is trying to actually control immigration >has no problem with legal immigrants >wants jobs to be brought back to the US >is sick of how those DemonKKKrats (holy shit, did you know they were the party of the KKK???!!) are always engaging in identity politics >sees Trump as strong, confident man >sees someone who doesn't want to take their guns
Progressive sees: >orange Hitler who wants an ethnostate >wants to run over brown people Tienanmen Square style during the Super Bowl half time show >thinks dumb hicks talking about "muh jerbs!" just say that as a cover for their racism >sees Trump as another white male trying to uphold white supremacy along with Fox News (more like Faux News am I right lmao, it's 2016 and it's still a fresh meme) which is literally everywhere >sees someone who wants to give an "AR-47 automatic machine nuke brown person killer" to every (white) six year old
Clearly I'm biased even in how I describe the two groups, but it's not totally off the mark either. A progressive reading that probably would deny just how cringe they are and would insist that "there are way more Nazis that you know about" out there.
Asher Martin
WRONG ONE IS A SELF HATING KIKE FEMALE WHO HATES WOMEN BECAUSE HER HUSBAND LEFT HER FOR A YOUNG BLONDE THE OTHER IS A FEMALE HATING FAG. THEY ARE HEAD WRITER ON ALL EPISODES (GAMBLE AND BERTANELLI)
Colton Adams
Is your keyboard broken or do you actually intend for everyone to read your posts like youre shouting into a bullhorn?
Joshua Edwards
YES.
Jason Stewart
house of cards is more truth than fiction. advisors for the show were in clinton/obama admins
Christian Martin
The locals are all blatantly sympathetic characters. Marty is a shithead and his wife is worse. Even normie see it, no idea what you're on about
it's called 'Programming' for a reason dummy. Try and empty some critical thinking, see beyond what's in front of you
Leo Hernandez
I never said they didnt, I was just wondering why the most outwardly liberal characters were also the most intentionally unlikable ones, given Netflix's reputation for being really woke. When the Byrdes start getting political in season 2 to lobby for their casino, they mention several times how dirty they feel having to work with a conservative republican to get it done, and the conservative republican seems like a genuinely okay guy especially for a politician. Seems unlikely that they would want you to make that association in your head. But that user that suggested it might be an easy way of generating nuance and character depth for a presumably liberal audience was probably right.
Colton Powell
EXCEPT IT'S NOT: REED HASTINGS IS WHITE AS CAN BE NIGGER.